Word: merit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent prize will be awarded this year, as in the opinion of the judges no version of sufficient merit has been handed...
...admission would have been impossible not so many years ago. For a long time even Harvard seemed disposed to cling too tenaciously to the classical system of education, or, at least, in recognizing the value of greater breadth, to place English much further down in the scale of (merit than it deserved. But with certain changes which have been made in the establishment of honors in English, a new and happier spirit has prevailed, of which this latest announcement of additional courses in the English department is one of the fruits...
...admirers of the more finished style of declamation, certainly to have been expected by those who watched the effect made by the speakers upon their audience. It has now certainly been demonstrated that a certain type of declamation while deemed excellent will never here receive the highest award of merit, and that type is the exquisitely finished. The writer, recalling memories of five contests, can remember that each year the same stress has been laid by the judges upon natural delivery and intelligent interpretation...
...from the students or alumni. I do not doubt it serves as a stimulus to the players, but to me it would seem to do so at the sacrifice of far more desirable results. Why should athletics be supported by a pronounced and well led body of claquers? What merit or credit in the playing when backed by a mechanical system of applause...
...fail to grieve at his loss. His career at college, both socially and in his studies, was one to serve as an example of straightforward, honest worth. A firm yet candid friend, ever willing to sacrifice his own pleasure to that of others, his uniform courtesy and quiet merit won for him the respect of all, the sincerest regard of those who knew him intimately. His success in the athletic field has upheld the honor of his college on more than one occasion, but neither victory nor defeat changed his even, pleasant manner through conceit or discouragement...